Isabel Romero García. Titular de Universidad. e-mail: marisa.romero@udg.edu
DNI: 07542266Z. Researcher ID: C-7219-2011; ORCID: 0000-0003-4805-8394
I have been an
Associate Professor at the University of Girona (UdG) since 2001, holding the
Full Professor Accreditation from ANECA obtained in March 2018. My academic
background includes a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the
University of Murcia (1989 and 1990, respectively); I earned my PhD in
Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in January 1995 and
completed a postdoctoral stay at the Laboratoire de Matériaux et Procédés Membranaire
(Montpellier, France, 1995). After joining UdG as an assistant professor in
1996, I complemented my teaching with various postdoctoral stays of more than
18 months (1996-2001) at the Laboratoire
d'Électrochimie Organique et Photochimie Redox (Joseph Fourier University
of Grenoble, France), until obtaining my position as Associate Professor at UdG
in 2001. To date, I have developed my research
activity in the lines of sustainable redox catalysis and the
heterogenization and reuse of catalytic systems; furthermore, between February
and July 2016, I enjoyed a sabbatical semester at ICMAB (CSIC) in the Inorganic
Materials and Catalysis group, and in recent years I have studied the
photoredox behavior of ruthenium compounds and metallacarboranes in the
oxidation of substrates in both homogeneous and heterogeneous phases. I have been
awarded 5 six-year research periods (sexenios) and have published 100 scientific
articles (83 of them in Q1), 2 book chapters, 2 outreach publications, and one
teaching publication (WoS, h-index: 30, total citations: 3645), in addition to
holding 4 patents and having participated in approximately 85 national and
international conferences. I have been part of 36 funded R&D projects,
serving as Principal Investigator (PI) in 11 of them, as well as in agreements
with Amity University (India) and the EURECAT Foundation.
My articles have been published in prestigious
journals such as: Chem. Soc. Rev. (1), JACS (3), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2),
Green Chem. (1), ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2), Adv. Synth. Catal. (1), Chem.
Eur. J. (4), Inorg. Chem. (25), Inorg. Chem. Front. (2), Dalton Trans. (14),
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (11), J. Org. Chem. (1), ChemPlusChem (1), Catal. Commun.
(1), J. of Molec. Catal. A-Chemical (3), Topics in Catalysis (1), Aust. J.
Chem. (1), Inorg. Chim. Acta (2), Polyhedron (2), J. Electroanal. Chem. (1), J.
Organomet. Chem. (1), Electrochim. Acta (1), Chem. Phys. Lett. (2), Anal. Chim.
Acta (2), J. Inorg. Biochem. (1), Organometallics (1), Catalysts (1), Comptes
Rendus Chimie (1), RSC Adv. (1), Pharmaceutics (1), Adv. Catal. (1), J. Med.
Chem. (2), Dyes&Pigments (1), Eur. J. Med. Chem. (1), Molecules (1),
Inorganics (1), Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. (1), and J. Environ. Chem. Eng. (1).
Regarding my
service record, I am a reviewer for international publications and funding
agencies such as AGAUR and ANPCyT, I have participated in approximately 25
thesis committees and faculty selection committees, and I am an external thesis
evaluator and a member of doctoral progress monitoring commissions at UAB and
UdG. Likewise, I participate in knowledge
transfer in forums such as the EBTON Transfer congress, public outreach
events like UAB Divulga, and in the development of the spin-off SunOx. My teaching activity spans 31 years and
approximately 5,000 hours at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels
(5 five-year teaching periods), having supervised 9 doctoral theses (2
ongoing), 10 master’s theses, around 50 bachelor’s theses, and various Erasmus
students, in addition to serving as a company supervisor and academic tutor for
internships and leading teaching innovation projects. Finally, I have been a
member of the Erasmus+ KA107 project, I have participated in the UdG tutorial
action plan since 2013, and in academic
management, I have served as Director of the Doctoral and Interuniversity
Master's programs at UdG in 'Homogeneous Catalysis' (2004-2012), Board Member
of the Inorganic Group of the RSEQ (2013-2020), Chair and member of scientific
committees in congresses such as QIES12, IMEBORON, and EUROBORON9, and Head of
the Inorganic Chemistry Area at UdG (2001-2004).